Glossary of Frequently Used joule Terms
Activities: Activities are interactive components of the course, like submitting assignments, that will be
graded upon completion.
Add a Lightbox gallery: Allows you to create image galleries within your Moodle course, including
various effects to those images.
Adobe Presenter: Links to an uploaded Adobe Presenter zip file.
Advanced Forum: The advanced forum brings superior functionality to the standard forums with post
flagging, full tree-view mode for AJAX, threaded view, the ability to export posts, the ability to sort
forum discussions, additional navigation options, the ability to attach multiple files to a forum post, etc.
This feature is a unique joule enhancement provided by Moodlerooms, Inc.
Advanced uploading of files: An assignment type that allows students to upload more than one file to
complete. Instructors can define how many files can be submitted, if the students are permitted to
delete files after submission, and whether multiple drafts can be reviewed with markups. One
advantage of advanced uploading of files is that it allows notes: If enabled, participants may enter notes
into a text area. It is similar to the Online text assignment. This text box can be used for communication
with the grading person, assignment progress description or any other written activity.
Analytics: Enhanced features like graphically-displayed reports and automated notifications provide you
with deeper insight into the performance and activity of your learning programs, enabling earlier
intervention and remediation if necessary to guide learners to success.
Anonymous Survey: A feedback survey where the responses are kept anonymous. Often used to get
feedback on a course where student identity could prevent honest input.
Assignment: Allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide helpful feedback.
Attendance: Students view their attendance records with this block while instructors take attendance,
report on attendance or change attendance settings.
Book: The Book module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a book-like format. This
module can be used to build complete book-like websites inside of your Moodle course. A book is a
document that holds content. To navigate a book, there are chapters on the left hand column. By
clicking on a chapter you will jump to that page in the book.
Branded Themes: joule’s Express Design feature helps promote consistency throughout your site with a
look and feel that reflects your program's identity. It also makes it easier for those with little to no
design skills to change the appearance of your site or even individual courses. Easily upload logos,
change header and footer colors and update font styles with simple menu selections.
Certificate: A joule feature that allows course instructors to create a printable certificate of completion,
and set completion requirements and parameters.
Chat: Allows participants to have real-time synchronous discussions on the Web.
Child: An assessment type that allows you to add fields from other assessments if they have their mode
set to "Single with edit." There is no report for this type. To see reports regarding the fields, one must go
to the original assessment. Note: this assessment type can ONLY be selected while creating the
assessment due to the nature of its fields.
Choice: A poll feature that can be useful as a quick way to stimulate thinking about a topic.
Cloud: Moodlerooms will host your joule site on the largest Moodle cloud in the world, supported in a
world-class data center that is owned and operated by our partner, Dell. We continuously monitor the
performance of our servers and offer an optimized, fully redundant and high availability hosting
architecture that provides a 99.99% guaranteed uptime.
Compose a text page: Creates a simple text page inside a course.
Compose a web page: Creates a web page inside a course.
Conduit: Administrative tasks can save your staff valuable time while ensuring greater accuracy.
Moodlerooms has created a systems integration tool called Conduit that allows administrators to quickly
load critical information from an existing SIS, ERP, or other learning databases into Moodle. This tool is
also architected to enable data syncing between systems. Conduit allows universities to automate many
tasks, such as loading users, authenticating passwords and uploading courses through Web services or
importing/exporting CSV files.
Dashboard: Within their customizable personal dashboard, instructors can quickly glance at course
activities or drill down for specific data relating to courses, users and objectives. Users can access
assignment due dates, course data and performance information in their dashboard.
Database: Allows users to collaboratively build, display and search a bank of record entries.
Digital Repository: joule's integrated digital repository incorporates learning objects, learning content
management and integrated content authoring so your organization can share, create and distribute
content across a connected network.
Dimdim Web Meeting: The Dimdim Web Meeting module allows participants to have a meeting via the
web. With Dimdim, you can show Presentation, Application and Desktop to any other person over the
internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. Dimdim is an Open
Source web meeting software. For more information, please visit the Dimdim website.
Display a directory: Allows a teacher to show uploaded items inside a folder from the files area.
E-Portfolio: Your organization can use joule's integrated e-portfolio to collect, organize, display and
reflect on their entire learning experience while receiving useful feedback. Valuable résumé building,
workforce development and social networking tools enable your users to capture and showcase proof of
their achievements and certifications.
EQUELLA Resource: EQUELLA is an advanced digital repository that incorporates a content authoring
tool and enables users to search, create and manage content such as images, audio, video, packaged
content, web links, text, PDFs and Microsoft Office documents. From within Moodle users can create
and add EQUELLA items to courses or contribute items to the EQUELLA repository.
Face-to-Face: Face-to-face activities are used to keep track of in-person trainings which require advance
booking. Each activity is offered in one or more identical sessions. These sessions can be given over
multiple days. Reminder messages are sent to users and their managers a few days before the session is
scheduled to start . Confirmation messages are sent when users sign-up for a session or cancel.
Feedback: With this module you can survey your students with a custom survey.
Flash Card Set: This module provide students a way of fast memorizing list of "things". This is a typical
indexing exercise, where a map of coupled things should be learned and retained. We say "thing"
because either key or value could be any related pair of text, images or sounds. This module implements
a full Leitner system to mechanically support the memorization process of the relationships. The couples
to be learned are first attached to a deck of cards. These are initially considered as difficult to learn. The
teacher can choose a learning curve using 2, 3 or 4 decks. 4 decks should be used for large set of
definitions. When the student fails answering a card, he will tell it and let the card stay in the same deck.
If he has the correct answer, he will ask for passing the card to the second deck, so considered as less
difficult to learn. The process is repeated for all decks till the last one where card will remain. The decks
are triggered so the student knows which he should review. Difficult cards will trigger more often than
trivial cards. Trigger delays are adjustable. When a student do not apply for reviewing decks, cards may
downgrade automatically to an higher difficulty deck. The module allows also a free use of the cards,
enabled by module configuration. The module is customizable graphically using a teacher defined CSS
and image set.
FlexPage: The Flexpage format is a new course format for Moodle. It is named Flexpage for 'flexible
page', as it is a format that enables a content author a great deal of control over how and where content
is displayed.The basic features are:
3 column view: Moodle blocks and modules can be assembled in any order in up to 3 columns on the
page.
Inline Module display: the format can be extended to display module content inline (in the page).
Presently this only has been extended for Forum, Assessment, and Resources, other modules show a
link as expected.
Back button: When you enter a module, there is a back button to return you to the page you were
previously on.
Parent-Child pages: a page can have child pages, and child pages can have child pages.
Automatic Tabs: A parent page can create a top tab if uses with the flexpage theme.
Course Menu: this block used with the Flexpage format provides a multiple menu system for navigating
the pages.
Roles based menus: there is a 'view menu' role, so menus can be hiddent/shown based on user role.
Backup and restore: any course in Flexpage format can be fully or partly backed up and copied to
another course
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Flexpage_format
Forum: A communication tool for users to submit content for all to read and discuss.
Game: Eight interactive games to make learning fun: Hangman, Crosswords, Cryptex, Millionaire,
Sudoku, The Hidden Picture, Snakes and Ladders, and Book with Questions.
Glossary: Allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, similar to a dictionary.
Hot Potatoes Quiz: This module, the "HotPot" module, allows teachers to administer Hot Potatoes
quizzes via Moodle. The quizzes are created on the teacher's computer and then uploaded to the
Moodle course.
IMS content package: IMS is a body which helps define technical standards for various things, including
e-learning material. The IMS Content Packaging specification makes it possible to store chunks of
material in a standard format which can be re-used in different systems without having to convert the
material into new formats. The IMS content package in Moodle enables such content packages to be
uploaded and included in courses. There are various options for displaying content in a pop-up window,
with a navigation menu or buttons etc. In addition, the resource type supports an optional repository
enabling content packages to be shared between courses.
In-Program Help: joule allows users to access tutorials and Frequently Asked Questions directly within
the platform to get immediate end-user support. Clicking links within the program displays relevant
information and how-to instructions for each page.
Insert a label: Allows you to add headers to your Moodle course, including images and media.
joule: joule™ is an adaptable learning management platform provided by Moodlerooms, Inc. that wraps
the managed open-source solution of Moodle with enhanced services and developments so
organizations can configure the perfect solution to sustain and grow their learning programs.
Journal: This module creates a private journal between a student and a teacher.
Label: A way to add text to the content area of your course.
Lesson: A series of interactive pages that require user interaction before advancing. A lesson consists of
a number of pages. Each page normally ends with a question and a number of possible answers.
Depending on the student's choice of answer they either progress to the next page or are taken back to
a previous page.
Link to a file or website: Creates a link to either an uploaded file inside a course, or a web site outside a
course.
Map (Google Map): Allows the creation of geographic maps to be used within courses. Can be used for
student locations and other course content.
Mindmap: Used to organize and structure items arranged around a central key idea in order to help
organization and idea generation in a course.
MOODLE (the acronym): Moodle: Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment is a free and
open-source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning
Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment. However, a more whimsical definition might be,
"the activity of divine laziness that leads to unexpected creativity." Moodle is a course management
system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses.
Moodlerooms: With Moodlerooms' enterprise-level service and support, organizations can dedicate
their time and resources on what really matters- the success of their learning programs. Moodlerooms
takes a consultative approach to assessing a client's service needs and creates the perfect fit for their
particular organization.
MyWork: An assessment type that is the same as a Survey, but the navigation is on the right hand side
for the report.
News Forum: The News Forum is an area to find ongoing announcements and news items for the
course. You can post responses and ask general questions here as well.
Offline Activity: An assignment type that is completed outside the system and submitted either through
email or in class face-to-face meetings. Useful tool to keep the gradebook current with activities that
would otherwise not have an online presence.
Online Text: An assignment type that allows students to submit responses directly into the Moodle LMS
without creating and posting a separate file.
Outcomes: Outcomes are specific descriptions of what a student is expected to be able to do or
understand at the completion of an activity or course. An activity might have more than one outcome,
and each may have a grade against it (usually on a scale). Other terms for Outcomes are Competencies
and Goals. Outcomes are aligned to specific assignments that correlate to a scale to identify levels of
mastery per outcome. In a Higher educational setting outcomes are associated with accreditation and
state licensure requirements.
Podcast: An easy way to incorporate a series of audio files to be made available within a course.
Progress: An assignment type that only supports the check box and relative date fields. The report is
similar to a checklist, reporting how many users have checked the check box or not
Questionnaire: Allows users to complete online feedback style forms and create their own
questionnaires using a variety of user input methods.
Quiz: Allows instructors to design and implement quizzes consisting of a large variety of question types.
Resources: A link within a course to a file or other material with additional information.
SCORM: The SCORM/AICC module is a course activity which allows you (the teacher) to upload any
SCORM or AICC package to include in your course.
Survey: The survey activity type supports all of the fields available. Also, this type of survey's report will
give detailed statistics based on user responses for every field type.
Upload a Single File: An assignment type that allows a student to upload one file of any type. Instructors
can determine if the file can be resubmitted.
Video: Brings Kaltura to the teaching environment, easily add video content to your course, enabling the
use of video and rich-media in education
Video Presentation: Create a synchronized view of a document (supported formats: *.ppt; *.doc; *.xls;
*.ods; *.odt; *,odp; *.pptx; *.docx; *.pdf; *.xlsx) and video.
Wiki: A Web page that everyone in a course can create together without needing to know HTML. A wiki
activity is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. A wiki starts with one front page.
Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet.
Workshop: A peer assessment activity with many options.